Dove, Michael R.
The Anthropology of Climate Change: An Historical Reader
This timely anthology brings together for the first time the most important ancient, medieval, Enlightenment, and modern scholarship for a complete anthropological evaluation of the relationship between culture and climate change.
- Brings together for the first time the most important classical works and contemporary scholarship for a complete historical anthropological evaluation of the relationship between culture and climate change
- Covers the historic and prehistoric records of human impact from and response to prior periods of climate change, including the impact and response to climate change at the local level
- Discusses the impact on global debates about climate change from North-South post-colonial histories and the social dimensions of the science of climate change.
- Includes coverage of topics such as environmental determinism, climatic events as social catalysts, climatic disasters and societal collapse, and ethno-meteorology
- An ideal text for courses in climate change, human/cultural ecology, environmental anthropology and archaeology, disaster studies, environmental sciences, science and technology studies, history of science, and conservation and development studies
Nyckelord: Environmental Sociology, human and cultural ecology, environmental anthropology and archaeology, disaster studies,  , environmental sciences, climate theory, ethno-meteorology, environmental determinism, societal collapse, drought, flood, el niñ, o, glacier
- Författare
- Dove, Michael R.
- Utgivare
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Utgivningsår
- 2014
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Serie
- Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Sidantal
- 360 sidor
- Kategorier
- Geografi, Resehandböcker
- Teknologi, energi, trafik
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781118605950
- Tryckt ISBN
- 9781118383001